Sentence examples for held ritual from inspiring English sources

During decades when the PRI was untouchable, it held ritual elections every six years.

Both substances were controlled, were considered elite products and held ritual significance for the Inca".

Details like slender fingers, baskets holding ritual tools, stylised flames and pictograms are executed with calm confidence.

It has shrines in Argentina and in Naples, where he also played, and the Iglesia Maradoniana holds ritual ceremonies and claims to have 120,000 worshippers to this quasi-god of soccer.

But the objects and textiles she has collected in Asia over the years are largely from the 17th and 18th centuries, including a Tibetan painted box (traditionally used to hold ritual butter sculptures) and ancient Japanese robes.

Very few of those people are specialists; typically they hold ritual authority by virtue of age, genealogy, or political office and are primarily responsible for the ritual well-being only of the members of the social groupings that they head; their congregations consist of their joint families, lineages, clans, local village communities, chieftaincies, or the like.

In general, when a member of a society changes, such as birth, adulthood, marriage, and death, people usually need to hold ritual for them, which indicates changes or transitions of an individual.

It almost figures that the very week it finally becomes cold enough to bundle up under a few layers, it's the time my university's Pagan Student Alliance decides to hold ritual for Imbolc.

I found Barreto living in a gritty Caracas neighborhood called El Cementerio, named for the large cemetery there, where malandros hold rituals for their fallen comrades.

Religious groups have been allowed to hold rituals near the bones, which are housed at Pacific Northwest National Lab in Richland, Washington.

"By continuing to hold rituals and events in Lee Chapel, the university, wittingly or not, sustains the Shrine of the South and the memory of Lee as a commander of the Confederate Army," the report said.